Steven Rinella
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So he wanted to do that.
He wanted his name down as somebody who owned that land.
But he did not want to stick around to see it through.
So that was his type of land speculation.
Like Dan McQuay builds the hut, stays there, is getting paid by the Holland Company.
He's taking the wood down the rivers, coming back.
That's his place.
Chapman just starts bouncing around.
Now he'll walk back seasonally.
comes back.
It's something that's very beautiful in his movements that I found that I actually try and do a little bit of in the book too.
There's almost this seasonal circular nature to it that I absolutely love.
He basically will partner with somebody and say, hey, will you stick around?
Will you look over this land?
It's now our land.
Which, again, he lost so much of it, especially when he passes away.
I'm sure not everyone went looking for his siblings to be like, by the way, I was in a 50-50 split.
I think they were like, well, look at that.
Now this is mine.